Monthly Archives: January 2015

Please join Vivian Singletary and Juneka Rembert of the Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII) Tuesday, February 12th, from 2:00 -3:00 pm EST for a webinar on Public Health Information Exchange capacity in the states of California and Massachusetts

In order to help public health organizations better understand the process for exchanging notifiable disease data, The Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII), hosted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), will present a webinar on their recent project, titled “Public Health Information Exchange Capacity.” This project sought to document the information exchange process involved in sharing notifiable disease data from local level, to the state level, and finally to the CDC. The findings of this report will help public health departments:

Understand the current state of notifiable disease data exchange in different states:

Learn of the challenges to disease data exchange for both State and Local Health Departments:

The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa and beyond. EMS providers have to be prepared to treat or transport suspected or known Ebola patients. Join FirstWatch President and long-time advocate for the value of EMS data for public health surveillance, Todd Stout and former Chief Medical Officer for the US Department of Homeland Security, Alex Garza, MD, MPH as they discuss how EMS services in the USA and Canada responded to the threat of Ebola.

This presentation will focus on two main areas affecting EMS providers and their public health partners:

EMS Agency Ebola information sharing and best practices development

Lessons learned from all of the North American EMS agencies that have transported patients with confirmed Ebola (Dallas, Omaha, Grady/Atlanta, NYC & AMR)

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